Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-01

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Yaaquir Nd bean : dspastmentsl clark r
fsety ysaza It wss' ct once his practical
rood luck and his misfortune to have been
early appointed to position which required
. thorough and complete knowledge Of the
formulas and routine Of department that
expended millions Of the public funds. Fau-
qaier, ON poor salary, diminishing instead
Of increasing with his service, had seen sue
cessivs administrations bud and blossom and
decay, but had kept his position through the
fact that his knowledge was necessity to
the successive chiefs and employees Once,
II was true that he had been summarily re-
moved by now secretary. to make room for
Z camp follower, whose exhaustive and intel
lectual services In political campaign had
made him eminently 6tfor anything; but the
alarming discovery that the new clerks
knowledge Of grammar and etymology was
even worse than that Of the secretary himself,
and that, through ignorance Of detail, the
business of that department was retarded to
damage to the government Of over half
million Of dollars, led to the reinstatement Of
Mr.. Fauquier-at . lower salary. For it was
felt that something was wrong somewhere,
and as it had always been the custom of con-
Rress and the administration to cut down sal
aries as the first step to reform, they made old
Mr.. Fauquier moral example. A gentle
man born, Of somewhat expensive tastes,
having lived up to his former salary, this
change brought another bread-winner into
the Aeld, Mrs Fauquier. who tried, more or
less unsucce@fully, to turn her old southern
habits Of hospitality to remunerative account.
But a. poor Fauquier could never be pre-
vailed upon to present bill to . gentleman,
tr, and ~ some Of tho scions Of the best
southern families were still waiting for, or
had bseh recently dismissed from, position,
the experiment. was pecuniary failure Yet
the house was Of sxoellent repute and wall
patronized; indeed, it1as worth something to
- old Fauquier sitting at the bead Of his own
table, In something Of his ancestral style, 70
lating anscdotss Of great men now dead and
gons, interrupted only by occasional visits
from importunate tradenmen.
Prominent among what Mr.. FAuquiw
called his ahttle family" was black-eyed
lady Of great powers Of fascination, and con-
siderable local reputation ~ firt Never
theleB, these social alterations were
amply condoned by . facile and COM
placsnt husband, who looked with .
leuient and even admiring eye upon the
little lady's amusement, and, to certain ex-
teut, liant . tacit indorsement to her conduct
Nobody minded Hopdnson; in the blase Of
Mrs. Hopkinsons destinations be was COM
plstely lost dght Of. Afew married woman
with unduly sendtive husbands, and several
single ladies Of tho best and longest standing,
reelected ssvsrely ON her conduct The
younger men, Of course, admired her, but
think she got her chiel support from old
fogies like ourselves For n = your quiet,
sslf-conceited, complacent, pAilosophic.
broad-waisted pater-familias who, after au,
Is the one to whom the gay and giddy of the
proverbially impulsive, unsel6sh sax owe
their place in the social ornament. We are
never inclined to be captious; we laugh at q
afolly what our wives and daughters con-
denim as fault our awithers are unwrung,"
yet we still confess to the destinations Of Q
pretty face. We know, bless us, from dear
experience, the exact value Of ono woman's
opinion Of another; we want our brilliant
win burn their two-penny immature wings
in the flannel And why should they notl
Nature has been pleased to supply more
moths than candles Go toi Give the pretty
creature-be she maid, wife or widows
showl And 20, my dear sir, while mater
familias bends her black brows in disgust, we
smile our superior little smile, and extend to
Mistress Anonyma our gracious indorsement
And II giddinem Is grateful, or Il folly Il
friendly y-well, Of course, we can't help that.
Indeed, it rather proves our theory.
I had intended to say something about Hop
hnson; but really there Il very little to say.
He was invariably good humored. A few
ladies once tried to show him that he really
ought to feel worse than he did about the
conduct Of his wife; and It Is recorded that
Hopdnson, In an excess Of good humor and
kindness, promised to do 50. Indeed, the
good fellow was 90 accessible that 1t b aid
young Delaney, Of the tape department, con-
dded to Hopkinson his jealousy Of . rival;
and revealed the awful secret that he De
LAncy1 had reason to expect more loyalty
from his Hopkinson'D wife The good fel-
low e reported to have been very SYM
pathetic, and to have promised Delaney to
lend whatever influence he had with Mrs.
Hopkinson in his favor. aYou see," hs said
explanatorily to Delaney, ashe has good
deal to attend to lately, and, supposs, has
got rather careless that's womens way. But
II can't bring her round III speak to 0ash-
wiler-m get him to use his influence with
MrA Hop. 30 cheer up, my boy; hen mako
It al right"
The appearance Of bouquet On the table
Of Mr.. Hopkinson was no rare event; never-
theles, Mr.. Gashwiler's was not there Its
hideous contrasts had offended her womans
eye-it Is Observable that good taste survives
tho wreck Of all the other feminine virtues
and she had distributed it to make bouton-
nieres for other gentlemen. Yet, whom he
appeared, she said to him hastily, putting her
little hand over the cardiac region:
1rm 80 glad you CANA But you gave me-
such fright an hour ago"
Mr.. Gashwiler was both pleased and q.
founded. @What have l done, my dear Mra
Hopkinsonr he began.
aOh, don't talk" !" she said, sadly. sWhat
have you done, indeedl Why, you ssnt me
that beautiful bouquet could not mistake